Binding: mottled calfskin. Rebacked, retaining gilt-tooled original backstrips with title and vol. no. on labels. Edges red

Bookplates with depiction of scorpion and the initials W R H J (Wynne Rice Hugh Jeudwine)

Barbou's address on t.p. of v. 2 is: rue des Mathurins

"Réponse à un mémoire publié en 1766 par MM. Gando, au sujet des caractères de fonte pour la musique," v. 2, p. [289]-306

Etched frontispieces by Etienne Fessard after Gravelot (v. 1) and de Sève (v. 2)

Vol. 2 includes 5 folded letterpress leaves printed with music, the last in black & red. They are paged 177-186 and signed as gathering 12

Pagination, v. 1: [32], 323, [5] p., XVI folded leaves of engraved plates -- v. 2: [2], xliv, [2], 306 p., [1] leaf of plates (frontispiece)

Includes indexes

Errata, v. 1, p. [324] and v. 2, p. 288

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